Includes index

State of the union, 2004 -- The privatizing of the American election -- The day the American empire ran out of gas -- A cheerful response -- Armageddon? -- Notes on our patriarchal state -- The national security state -- The state of the union, 1980 -- The second American revolution -- We are the patriots -- Interim report : election 2004

In this conclusion to his trilogy begun with "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace" and continued by his "Dreaming War," Gore Vidal offers a devastating exploration of contemporary America. He argues that we have ceased to be a nation under law, but an "Enron-Pentagon prison" with a "withered Bill of Rights", where homegrown imperialists have privatized and stolen American democracy from its people and there are ballooning budget deficits and tax cuts for the privileged

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